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Rob’s favorite books

The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Pearl by John Steinbeck The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan The Republic by Plato Macbeth by William Shakespeare Animal Farm by George Orwell King Lear by William Shakespeare
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
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It is better to not be reborn.
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Gustave Flaubert
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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